Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 217
13.07.2006 USA today 20 8 years after it bottomed out in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, the
Russian economy is in its 4th consecutive year of 6% annual growth.
Unemployment has been roughly halved and inflation tamed
15.07.2006 Wash Post 20 President Bush said intensive talks did not result in a deal because the adm.
believed Russia needed to offer more in trade concessions [for WTOmembership]
to satisfy the Congress
15.07.2006 Telegraph 20 Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To
paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of
its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property,
or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors"
24.07.2006 X 20 Global commerce talks at the WTO collapsed as top powers failed to agree
on steps toward liberalizing trade in farm and manufactured goods
03.08.2006 USA today 20 The federal government keeps two sets of books. The set the government promotes to the
public has a healthier bottom line: a $318 billion deficit in 2005. The set the government doesn't
talk about is the audited financial statement produced by the government's accountants
following standard accounting rules. It reports a more ominous financial picture: a $760 billion
deficit for 2005. If Social Security and Medicare were included, the federal deficit would have
been $3.5 trillion
22.08.2006 Times 20 RUSSIA has finally paid off its Soviet-era debts ... The repayment of $22.5
billion .. largest-ever repayment to the Paris Club of 19 creditor countries
24.08.2006 Moscow News 20 Russia Overtakes Saudi Arabia as World's Leading Oil Producer
02.09.2006 WRH 20 We have had three Presidents who supported the right of the gov. to issue
Treasury Notes instead of Federal Reserve Notes. Unfortunately for us, all
three [Lincoln, McKinley & Kennedy] were killed by "lone assassins"
03.09.2006 Berlingske 20 Afstanden mellem rig og fattig har ikke været større siden 1960erne ..de sidste 10 år
er de højeste lønninger vokset dobbelt så meget som de laveste ... kun de 20%
rigeste har øget deres andel af samfundets indkomstmasse
09.09.2006 X 20 China's trade surplus widens to a record $18.8 billion
15.09.2006 Federal
Reserve
20 This is the official Federal Reserve Board announcement discontinuing the
publishing of the M3 monetary aggregate ... The M3 is the total amount of
dollars in circulation, both paper and virtual ... suggests to some that our
economy is entering a period of hyper-inflation as Bush continues to borrow
at record levels to support his wars
15.09.2006 X 20 Air America To Declare Bankruptcy {not just the ‗Air‘}
15.09.2006 USA Today 20 NORFED has been making the Liberty Dollar coins for 8 years and claims $20 million is in
circulation. The group says the money, unlike official U.S. cash, has a hedge against inflation
because it is made almost entirely of silver and is backed by stocks of silver and gold in a vault
in Idaho - The word "dollar" comes from "Thaler", a German silver mine that produced its
product in coins of uniform weight, so accurate that they became a trading standard. Under US
law, a dollar is legally defined as 371.25 grains of silver, or 24.75 grains of gold. The paper
notes originally issued by the treasury were merely claim checks for the real dollars held in the
bank vaults ... the issue here isn't protecting the "real" money but protecting the fake scrip being
issued by the Federal Reserve
19.09.2006 Toronto Star 20 You can't expect the International Monetary Fund to come out and say the
world is headed for a global financial crash ... but .. the risk of such a calamity
is increasing
26.09.2006 Weforum 20 CH, SF & S are the world‘s most competitive economies according to The
Global Competitiveness Report 2006-2007, released by the World Economic
Forum on 26 September 2006. DK, Singapore, US, Japan, D, NL & UK
complete the top ten list, but the US shows the most pronounced drop, falling
from 1. to 6.
26.09.2006 NY Times 20 A EU panel has serious doubts about the legality of a Bush adm. program
that monitors int. financial transactions - provide a fantastic tool for watching
global investing trends, to allow those with access to the data to buy in when
a stock is rising
06.10.2006 BAZ 20 US-Unternehmenschefs steigerten ihre Einnahmen im 2005 im Schnitt um
16%. 2004 [konnten] die Top-Manager sich noch über einen satten Zuwachs
ihrer Vergütungen um 30% freuen
13.10.2006 Bloomberg 20 China's foreign-currency reserves surged to ~$1 trillion, the most ever held by
a single country, driven by a record trade surplus that U.S. critics blame on an
artificially undervalued yuan
16.10.2006 Welt 20 Die Vorstände der 30 Dax-Konzerne haben 2005 besser verdient als im
Vorjahr – die Gehälter stiegen durchschnittlich um 11%
26.10.2006 X 20 The median price of a new home plunged in September by the largest
amount in >35 years
02.11.2006 Aljazeera D 20 U.S.‘s sanctions against Syria prompted Damascus to start switching its
foreign currency surplus from U.S. $ to €